Public Art
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The Sunflower field
The Sunnflower field is a mural that I paint in cooperation with the students at Sussex Ave Renew School in Newark , New Jersey. -
The New Nest
"The New Nest" was a mural commissioned by the Larke family during the summer of 2014. The mural is located in a very informal space,a transitional area between the kitchen and the living room in their Connecticut home. Designing and executing the painting meant extended the branches through different planes and creates a rhythm and continuity in the space that keeps the unity in the mural. -
The Inverted Landscape Installation
"The Inverted Landscape" was a temporary installation created for a public stairs in the Shutters Building at Lehman College in New York City, it was created using different materials and found objects. The installation explore the way humans have been observing and interacting with their environment, -
Eagle Restoration
In 2004 I was commissioner by The Historical American Society of the United States, District of NJ to help with the restoration of the eagle sculpture located in the Martin Luther King Jr Federal Building. The eagle sculpture was vandalize and I was commissioner to build a model of the head. -
The Imbondeiro and the Giraffe
The giraffe is now feared to be extinct in Angola, a war ravaged country after which giraffe sub-species, Giraffa camelopardalis angolensis is named. In his “impossibility” themed mural, Cuban-born neighborhood artist Nelson Alvarez captures this modern- day irony from a child’s perspective by juxtaposing the giraffe against another graphic Angolan icon, the Upside-Down Tree a.k.a. Imbondeiro (Adansonia digitata). While in his twenties, Alvarez was drafted by the Cuban army and flown overseas to fight in the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002), a conflict now infamous for its use of child soldiers. He made his sketches while stationed in the Portuguese speaking lowland regions surrounding capital city, Luanda. Presently a resident of Inwood, New York, Alvarez uses his work to depict the impact of rampant industrialization upon urban landscapes. His interest in environmental art results as much from his Angolan “adventure” as it does from his activist days in Havana.